Steam for Linux

Steam for Linux limited beta has arrived!

The Valve Linux team is proud to announce the launch of a limited access beta for its new Steam for Linux client.The Steam for Linux Beta client supports the free-to-play game Team Fortress 2. Approximately two dozen additional Steam titles are now also available for play on Ubuntu. Additionally, the Steam for Linux Beta client includes Big Picture, the mode of Steam designed for use with a TV and controller, also currently in beta.For the latest news and discussion, come on over to the Steam for Linux group discussion.

I did not get the beta invite, but when running Steam under Wine Fallen Earth and L4D2 work fine (L4D2 has some sound problem, and FE crashes with running at high quality and minor problems with textures in dark places) ... I'll give New Vegas a spin now ...

Looking good so far! Beats using Wine by a long shot...I poked about in the .deb file and it looks a bit "unclean"!! Especially if the executable in /usr/bin/ simply bootstraps the steam executable in your user home folder. I hope the installer will be sorted out for the release version of the Steam Client. I trust I'll be able to use it on Gentoo as well :-)Keep up the good work!!